Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it.

1. Spring Cloud lead Ramnivas Laddad has written up a nice post that looks at how to extend Spring Cloud to consume other services in a consistent manner.

• I liked Samer Abdelkafi's blog introducing how to use Java configuration with Spring. It's always a good time to review..
• The Pragmatists blog has a detailed look at the sort of (tortured) steps involved in using Spring with the Play! web framework
• Biju Kunjummen put together a great post that looks at how to deploy a Spring Cloud enabled application to Cloud Foundry
• Thys Michels is back at it again, this time with a post on building a ToDo application with Spring MVC and Angular.js
• I am really happy that this link is in this week's roundup, the author -Priyadarshini - did an amazing job! Check out this really thoughtful introduction to using Spring Boot to build a CRUD-capable Spring Boot-based application.
• The /dev/Kico blog has a nice Portguese-language post on what's new in Spring 4
• Ahmed Essam El-din Ahmed's roundup of the integrations for security among the various web frameworks - including Spring MVC - is fantastic.
• Did you know that Spring provides a StoredProcedure object that can be used to wrap and adapt the painful setup involved in invoking a stored procedure from JDBC.
• Theodora Fragkouli put together a nice post on how to handle Spring MVC form handling
• The ITEssays blog has a code recipe demonstrating how to use Spring Data MongoDB with XML configuration.

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